Nevo is launched by Yimiao , which first appeared on American crowdfunding websites in December 2014 On. After waiting for several months, its engineering machine finally arrived in our evaluation room Has . Compared with traditional smart watch functions such as counting steps, alarm clock and notification, its selling point is more about its appearance. Now let's see how its appearance and performance are.
Appearance and workmanship
The engineering machine we got was packed in a full black paper box, with the relevant functional characteristics on the back.
The accessories are placed on the felt bracket. The machine accessories include instructions, leather and cloth watchbands, button batteries, spare watchband clips, and the cover opener on the back of the watch.
Both watchbands use champagne gold buckles, while the leather watchband is black on the outside and yellow on the inside.
The dial is 40mm in diameter and 12.5mm thick, which is a little smaller than the 42mm version of the Apple Watch, but the thickness is controlled in a standard way. The body is champagne gold, and the reflection rate of sapphire protective glass is a little high.
In addition to the logo that is very "hidden" on the white dial, there are only simple scale points, which are very simple. There are 11 color changeable LED lights under the 12 hour scales to display the amount of exercise or notification.
On the fuselage, except for the crown in the center for adjusting time, the upper and lower buttons are respectively used to display the amount of exercise of the day and Bluetooth connection. The two buttons of the construction machine feel soft, and the feedback is not obvious.
The smooth stainless steel back cover is engraved with the logo of nevo. If you have no experience in screwing the cover, it is likely that you will find that the original font is not horizontally or vertically aligned after screwing it steadily.
Nevo is a dual battery design. One is responsible for the power supply of the watch movement (using 364 button batteries, and the official announcement has a 5-year life), and the other is responsible for intelligent functions (using CR2025 button batteries, and the official announcement has a 6-month life).
The back cover can be easily opened with the attached cover opener. In addition to the vibration motor and battery compartment, only the circuit board on the side can be vaguely seen inside the machine. The officially announced Swiss ETA watch movement is below.
It is a classic watch when combined with the strap. This time, the color matching of champagne gold dial+black strap (slightly blue) was evaluated. In addition, the color matching of "black dial+coffee strap" and "silver dial+black strap" were also evaluated.
Wearing experience
The dial is still relatively large and thick, but it is not incongruous for men to wear it (the author is 180 tall and thin). However, the watch body is obviously biased. When you wear it to rotate your wrist or shake your hand, you can clearly feel its weight. The protruding back of the watch body also affects the wearing feeling of the watch to a certain extent.
The machine supports 5ATM waterproof, and there is little pressure for bathing and swimming. But the leather watchband itself is afraid of water, and the experience of the cloth watchband after wet water is also known by who. If you often want to work in wet water, you still have to wait for the official launch of the metal watchband.
Functional experience
Smart watches have gone through several forms in recent years, and the earliest products are full-size Later products used a customized system, and then came "traditional watch shape plus bracelet core" products such as Things Activity é and Nevo.
In the end, the biggest features of these products can be summed up in two aspects: the traditional watch's formal appearance and its violent endurance, but at the cost of less functions, it is basically the same as the old three sports bracelets: vibrating alarm clock, counting steps and notification. But it may be that the Nevo official also found that the possibility of sleeping with a watch was low, so the sleep detection function was not added to the app.
However, the client of the Nevo engineering machine is still in an early stage. For the time being, it only provides iOS clients, and its functions and UI are relatively simple. For the time being, only the low, medium and high motion volumes can be set for the step counter, and only one alarm clock can be set for the vibrating alarm clock.
Like many bracelet and watch products, it uses the algorithm provided by the domestic manufacturer bong. However, in practical use, the exercise step counting function cannot display step/distance statistics like a bracelet, nor does it have daily data statistics. The only interaction is the number of LED lights flashing on the dial (the more exercise, the more lights flashing when viewing the exercise), which is of little significance to users.
The vibrating alarm clock can vibrate (nonsense) at the preset time point and light up all LED lights at the same time, but the vibration amplitude of the construction machine at this stage is too small, and it is likely to "ignore" its vibration when walking. In addition, it will only vibrate several times in a row, and there will be no other additional vibration alerts later, which increases the probability that users will not wake up after shaking.
What the author did not expect was the notification function of nevo. The machine natively supports phone, SMS, WeChat, email facebook、 Calendar notification, and different LED indicator colors can be set for different notification types. In order to prevent information leakage caused by Bluetooth disconnection, the machine also provides disconnection notification.
Although it is impossible for normal people to remember so many colors, after remembering the colors of several important notices such as phone, SMS, WeChat, etc., when the watch shakes and lights up, it can easily know whether it is a phone or WeChat, which is still very practical.
summary
It is also a core product of traditional watch style+sports bracelet, as well as French Withings Activity é, domestic inWatch fusion Paick, Aurora, etc. They are similar in function, and they are traditional round dial watches in appearance.
What they are more similar to is the pricing strategy, which basically fluctuates around 1000 yuan The official price of nevo has even reached 1999 yuan (expected to be sold in May). Looking at the price, I suddenly understand what luxury is.
The relationship between products of the same type is not so much to compete with each other as to sell advertisements to each other: they all use English names, and their appearance is relatively similar. Many people can't tell which name is what. They only remember the products of this category.
If you need a smart watch that can be worn as an ordinary watch and has the function of counting steps, alarm clock and reminding, this type of product will be a good choice (except for the price). In addition, because there is no gap in functions, it is good to recognize the shape you like and the price you can accept when you choose this type of product
If all you need is step counting and sleep detection, and the function of watching time and forcing is useless to you, it is more reliable to buy a bracelet that is easy to wear and can accompany you to sleep without putting your hands up;
If you want to count your steps and check your sleep, wear it easily, and also want to check the time, you may have to find a noble bracelet like fitbit charge or Samsung Gear Fit
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